Loyola University New Orleans

School mission (as provided by the school):

Chartered in 1912, Loyola University New Orleans is a Catholic institution that emphasizes the Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person and is open to students of all faiths. One of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities nationwide, Loyola has consistently ranked among the top 10 regional universities in the South in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges". U.S.News has also ranked Loyola #8 in the Great Schools, Great Prices category and recognizes Loyola's service learning programs among the top 29 in the nation. Princeton Review ranks Monroe Library as one of the Top 10 college libraries in the country, in company with Harvard, Princeton, and Duke. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently awarded Loyola its Community Engagement Classification, recognizing the university's long tradition of partnering with and reaching out to its wider community. PROGRAMS: Loyola offers 61 undergraduate, 13 interdisciplinary minors, 11 graduate and professional programs, and six dual graduate degrees in the Colleges of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Business, and Music and Fine Arts, and has study abroad programs in more than 40 countries. Loyola is the proud home of many centers and institutes as well, including the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing and the Center for the Study of New Orleans, the first national scholarly center that studies a specific city. Our faculty has received prestigious national awards including Pulitzer Prize nominations, book reviews in the New York Times, the O. Henry Award, and international scientific recognition. Student to faculty ratio is 12:1; average classroom size is 22. There are slightly less than 3,000 undergraduate students, 84 percent of whom receive some sort of financial assistance. CAMPUS: New Orleans is Loyola's extended campus, a city rich in its heritage of art, culture, and history. Located in one of the city's most prestigious residential neighborhoods, the campus is 20 minutes away from downtown and the French Quarter and is located across the street from the Audubon Park and Zoo. There are four undergraduate residence halls on campus; some offer several living-learning communities and affinity floors as well as educational and social programming. COLLEGES: The College of Music & Fine Arts serves as the preeminent center of fine and performing arts study among all Jesuit universities in the U.S. The $13 million Communications/Music Complex is a 115,000-sq. ft. building with state-of-the-art facilities. The College of Business is ranked among the nation's Best 301 Business Schools for 2010 in the Princeton Review and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The College of Humanities & Natural Sciences provides opportunities for students to work with professors on research projects in the sciences and collaborative ventures in humanities disciplines. Projects range from National Science Foundation research grants, collaborative research papers, to student assistantships. The College of Social Sciences, committed to linking educational excellence with social justice, was named one of the Great Schools for Communications Majors and Great Schools for Journalism Majors by Princeton Review. The College of Law offers both civil law and common law curriculums, full-time day and part-time evening programs, as well as five joint degree programs. WEBSITE: www.loyno.edu Contact Admissions at 800-4-LOYOLA or admit@loyno.edu.